While pkg works just fine with ports as the local package management
tool, it ultimately allows to skip ports and use remote binary
packages.

As a consequence of the security incident on 11th November 2012, for
the time being pre-compiled packages for pkgng are not available from
any official FreeBSD repository. The test repository
pkgbeta.freebsd.org contains only a copy of pkg-1.0.X.txz in order to
facilitate the bootstrap procedure for enabling pkgng on a new system.

Package build clusters are now setup and running weekly. Packages
should be available for the FreeBSD 10 release.

In the mean time, pkg users who wish to have binary packages are
advised to investigate tools such as poudriere or tinderbox.